Chess Informant 111 - Anniversary edition

Issue #111celebrates Chess Informant's forty-fifth jubilee! Between these royal purple covers is a treasure trove of material for all chess lovers. This single issue offers more than 300 annotated games, a similar amount of game fragments, brilliant combinations, instructive endings, excellent moves, chess problems and studies.

You will also find the Portrait ofAlexander Grischukand voting for the best ten games and ten most important theoretical novelties fromChess Informant 110.

Beyond this, there are two new columns: "Chess History" written by Harald Fietz, about the famous San Sebastian 1911 tournament and the centenary ofJosé Raúl Capablanca's first visit to Europe; and "Women in Chess" by WGM Anna Burtasova, dedicated to the legendaryMaia Chiburdanidze, who celebrated her jubilee birthday in 2011.

Notable new additions to our contributors roster includeInarkiev, Sargissian, Kiril Georgiev, Parligras, Zhao Jun, Delchev, Zontakh, Igor Miladinovic and Predojevic. Not to mention that you don't want to miss two exceptional games by Zhao Jun from Beijing; these games will be among the candidates for best game accolades.

Moreover,Chess Informant 111gathers together some of the brightest young guns of today's chess world. You surely must have heard of American starsShankland and Naroditsky, Philippine tigers Wesley So and Darwin Laylo, African championBassem Aminfrom Egypt, as well as promising players like theKalmykianSjugirovfrom Russia,Sanikidzefrom Georgia or the HungariansBerczes and Erdos.

Chess Informant Labs - Wesley So joins the crew

As a new editor-in-chief , I was completely amazed by the quality and depth of the annotations that one of the world stars, Wesley So, contributed toChess Informant 111. So's coverage of the Grünfeld Defence was so complex and interesting that we had to create additional space inside CI Labs for a further theoretical survey; one which gained the admiration of his CI Labs colleagues.

The CI Labs crew presents original ideas in the following openings:

B12 Caro-Kann, Advance Variation by GMMilos Perunovic

C41 Philidor Defence, Gambit Variation by GMRobert Markus

C70 Ruy Lopez by GMIvan Ivanisevic

D76 Grünfeld Defence, Fianchetto Variation by GMWesley So

E35-37 Nimzo-Indian Defence, 4.Qc2 System by GMBojan Vuckovic

E68 King's-Indian Defence, Fianchetto Variation by GMDragan Solak

CD as a digital magazine

Chess Informant 111 introduces a completely redesigned CD, the content of which is evolving towards the look and feel of an advanced digital chess magazine. These changes should improve the overall user experience.